Scouring device



May 13, 1930. D. J. MAYER SCOURING DEVICE Filed May 7, 1929 JAZQVVENTOR.ante} a 61 2 By j TTORNEY Patented May 13, 1930 'umreo STATES; PATENT OFE DANIEL J. MAYE or BELLEVILLE, NEW JnnsEY, ASSIGNOR ro mE'fiAL" TEXTILEconronA'rIon, or ORANGE, new JERSEY, A CORPORATION or DELAWARE scounnvoDEVICE Application filed May 7, 1929. Serial No. 361,083.

This invention relates to improvements in scouring devices, and, moreparticularly, to

scouring devices of the dish and bottle mop type; this application beinga continuation 5 in part of the subject matter disclosed in myco-pending application for United States Letters Patent, Serial No.268,859, filed April 10, 1928, and which hasresulted in Patent No.1,713,975, granted May 21, 1929.

The present invention'has for its principal object to provide incombination with a handle stick a mop head comprising an abrasive massmade of metallic wire or acomposlte of metallic wire and textile yarn sodoubled on itself as to provide a multiplicity of loop ends radiatingfrom a common center, and bound together by a restrictive holding meanswhich is provided with a shank portion adapted'for insertion in the endof the handle stick in fixed connection therewith.

25 head may be laterally pressed against the sides of bottles, dishes,etc. in a manner whereby the abrasive material is backed by the stickand easily pressed with effective scouring action sidewise as well'asendwise; and 30 to this end the radial loops of the lower half of mophead are adapted to dispose themselves in downward overlapping relationto and around the end portion of the handle stick; and, furthermore, thesides of the handle stick below the extremity to which the mop head issecured, is annularly undercut to form a retaining seat into which theoverlying mass of the mop-head loops may be seated when lateral pressureis exerted to press the side of the mop head against a surface to bescoured; said retaining seat serving to hold the engaged mop headmaterial against displacement under reciprocable movement scoured. Itwill thus be obvious that the mop head may be. efiectively manipulatedagainst both the bottom and sides of receptacles such e. g. as bottles,jars, bowls, etc;

of the mop head against'the surface to be with full assurance that aportion of the mass of the mop head is always available for serviceunder either condition.

Other objects of this invention, not at this time moreparticularlyenumerated, will be clearly understood from the followingdescription of the same.

An illustrative embodiment of the invention is shown in the accompanyingdrawings, in which Fig. 1 is a side elevation of the novel dish andbottle mop made according to and embodying the principles of thisinvention; Fig. 2 is a fragmentary, more or less schematic,

vertical longitudinal section of the same; and

Fig. 3 is-a detail view showing the manner in which the loops ofmaterial from whichthe mop head is formed are arranged so as to providea compact central heart from which the said loops may radiate;

Similar characters ofreference are employed in the above describedviews, to indicate corresponding parts.

The mop head is, in its essential characteristics, formed of metallicmaterial preferably in the form of flat ribbon-like Wire or wire ofangular cross sectional shape a, which is turned or twisted upon itselfto provide a roughly spirallyconvolved strand, thus furnishing amultiplicity of lateral scraping edges or projections. Preferably themetallic material is thus convolved or twisted about a central carrierstrand of textile yarn I),

tions. "The abrasive material thus provided is looped back and forthupon itself with the intermediate portions of gathered or bunchgdtogether into a compact central portion restrictively engaged andretained by abinding member, so that a' multiplicity of 1 0p ends 0radiate from the central portion in all directions. The binding memberconsists in-a binding wire arranged to form an encircling element atabout the central portion, but with the ends of such encircling elementd twisted together so as to form a shank P01 tion e extendingoutwardlytherefrom. In order to assure a firmly compacted central portion,whereby theloop ends are. caused to more uniformly radiate in alldirections, I find it preferably to draw out or stretch the convolvedmetallic wire on the carrier strand 6 at the center portions of doubledback strands whereby the loops are formed,

thereby attenuating the metallic material to non-corrosive metal. I havefound copper a very satisfactory metal for the purpose.

The reference character 9 indicates a handle stick to which the mop headisattached.

This handle stick is provided at one end with a concave seat h,,andextending axially into the handle stick body from the bottom of the seatIt is a bore or opening To assemble the mop-head with the handle stickg, the shank portion e of the binding member is inserted and driven intothe bore or opening 2'.

' If desired, a suitable cement or glue may be employed to coat theinserted shank so as to adhesively fix the same to the handle stickbody. The shank portion 6 is driven into the handle stick until theconsolidated heart of the mop-head and its encircling element d are .ingrelation to surfaces 3rd day of May,

had to a handle stick as to completely envelop the end portion of thelatter, and consequently the mop may be variously manipulated undereither endwise or sidewise pressure with full assurance that thematerial of the mop head is brought into/operative scour- CHSG.

Having" thus described my invention, I

carrying strand looped upon itself with the" center portions ofsaidstrand intermediate the free loop ends thereof bunched together to;form a consolidated-central heart from- -which the freef'loop endsradiate in all directions, a bindin element encircling and holding saidcentral heart, said binding element havin an outwardly extending shank,

a handle stick having an end axially bored into cured to attach said mophead to the handle stick with adJacent free oop ends ofthe formeroverlapping and surrounding the free end portion of the latter, saidend-portion of said handle stick underlying said surround ing free loopends having an annularly undercut'seat in which the latter may engagewhen laterally pressed and reciprocated against a surface to becleansed.

In testimony, that I claim the invention set forth above I have gereuntoset my hand this -DANIEL' J. MAYER.

drawn firmly down into the concave seat k;

The adjacent loop .ends 0 are separated so as to allow the end of thehandle stick to extend into the central heart, whereupon said adjacentloop-ends 0 will overlap the end portion of the handle stick so as tosurround the same, as indicated more especially in Fig. 2. The exteriorsurface of the handle stick end portion 'underlyin the surrounding loopends 0 is preferab y annularly undercut to thus form an annular seatbeneath the mar-. gins 7c of the extremity o the handle stick. As willbe understood from an inspection of 2 of the drawings, the surroundingloop a will, when the mop-head is pressed laterally against a surface tobe scoured, be forced yielding'ly back into said seat 7', andconsequently the loop end material will be braced or heldagainstdisplacement when the mop-head is reciprocated under suchlaterally applied pressure, and consequently the loo en'd material maybeefl'ectively moved agalnst the surface to be'scoured without loss p ofthe desired abrasive effect by reason of disand bottle mop having anabrasive head so rehich said shank is inserted and se-,

to be cleaned in either

